Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

From: dircha (dircha_at_dircha.com)
Date: 06/15/04

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    Cecil wrote:
    > I am curious as to what the pros and cons would be of picking just one
    > desktop and deleting the other. Please tell me which you prefer, and
    > resons why. I have bothe kde and gnome now. Thanks,

    In GNOME try printing in the default installs of gpdf (PDF), ggv
    (Postscript), Epiphany (web browser), or Abiword (word processor) to
    name a few.

    Unless something has changed since last I checked, you get nothing but a
    text field that takes a command string for lpr. That is to say, you
    don't get a drop down list of configured local or network printers.
    That's awfully backward for a modern GUI environment.

    I choose neither. There are too many layers of automated cruft such that
    when something breaks or fails to work (and it always does), fixing or
    even identifying the problem is no simple proposition. The resource
    usage is sick. Just let me have a top level dot file in my home
    directory, one where I don't have to hassle with the redundancy of xml
    tags and 4 levels of nesting to modify simple behavioral attributes.

    Also, as a matter of principle I simply can not deal with a monstrous
    settings daemon wasting more resources than many GUI applications.
    Perhaps this can be taken care of at compile time, but the reason I
    don't use a source based distribution is because I'm not willing to take
    the time to hassle with that.

    So I do without, and don't much mind it.

    dircha 

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